It seems that for Arthur Miller an atmosphere that includes "stoical military virtues" makes a critical U.S. theater impossible.

The end is nigh - The Guardian.

"The bad part of being around a long time is the realisation that mankind is endlessly rediscovering the wheel; now the stoical military virtues - a kind of Roman obedience and conformity - echo in an attorney general, the highest legal officer of government, declaring that to oppose his ideas is to unpatriotically encourage terrorism, even as the American Bar Association warns that our vaunted legal rights and protections are being undermined by this kind of thinking."